[00:03] <|val|> hi all, someone can explain what options "replace" and "applies" (in gfxboot.cfg) excatly do to isolinux command line ?
[00:08]  * cjwatson reminds himself
[00:09] <cjwatson> |val|: so here's an example:
[00:09] <cjwatson> label workstation=Install a workstation
[00:09] <cjwatson> replace workstation=file=/cdrom/preseed/workstation.seed
[00:09] <cjwatson> applies workstation=install
[00:10] <cjwatson> |val|: the 'replace' there causes any existing 'file=' parameters in the command line to be replaced with 'file=/cdrom/preseed/workstation.seed'. (compare 'append', which would just append the argument to the command line without checking.)
[00:10] <|val|> ok and what about applies ?
[00:10] <cjwatson> hang on I'm typing
[00:11] <cjwatson> |val|: the 'applies' means that the "Install a workstation" option should only be available for selection in the "Modes" menu if the option corresponding to 'label install' in isolinux.cfg is currently selected in the main menu.
[00:11] <cjwatson> in other words this permits the definition of modes that only apply to some top-level boot methods.
[00:12] <|val|> ok I undestand well !!!
[00:12] <|val|> thx a lot
[00:12] <cjwatson> the point of all this was to reduce combinatorial explosion of top-level options.
[00:14] <|val|> cat /proc/cmdline is quite cool !
[00:16] <|val|> just a question...are there differences between an ubuntu cmd-line system and an xubuntu one ?
[00:26] <|val|> have a nice day...
[02:17] <lfaraone> cjwatson: why is it that you remove a device after formatting it in the usbcreator backend?
[02:18] <lfaraone> cjwatson: (what would happen if you didn't pop it from devices and call the device_removed action on the frontend?)
[08:44] <cjwatson> lfaraone: usb-creator is evand's code rather than mine, so I'm not sure
[08:44] <cjwatson> you'd need to ask him
[13:08] <lfaraone> evand: why is it that you remove a device after formatting it in the usbcreator backend? (what would happen if you didn't pop it from devices and call the device_removed action on the frontend?)
[15:19] <Torgoton> During install on a low-memory machine, when it says "set up swap space as soon as possible", how would I do that? I do have a swap partition on the drive, and I'm attempting to install using the netboot files.
[18:53] <evand> lfaraone: best to check ~evand/usb-creator/future as I'm on the cusp of merging that back into trunk (just have some somewhat invasive changes to add a devicekit backend to commit on top of that)
[18:53]  * evand heads out